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The Right to Information Act, 2005 — a decade of change, 2015 to 2025
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ant|RTI Assistant]]** — AI-driven drafting, First Appeal, Second Appeal in one place. </WRAP> {{ :social:auto:b... ". - Section 13(5) was amended to remove the linkage of salaries and other service conditions to those of the Chief Election Commissioner and Election Commissioner. The new text... trength in December 2025. * **State Information Commissions.** Aggregate pendency of appeals and complaints crossed **four lakh** in 2024-25,... dia, 2024-25//. Several States had no functioning Commission for extended periods. Some Commissions heard appeals three to six years after filing. * **Gender co
Delhi High Court PhD Theses Ruling
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ant|RTI Assistant]]** — AI-driven drafting, First Appeal, Second Appeal in one place. </WRAP> {{ :social:auto:b... *personal information** and that disclosure would constitute an **unwarranted invasion of privacy**. The first appeal under Section 19(1) was rejected. The second appeal before the **Central Information Commission** partially se... llate Authority. Refusal upheld. | | +90 days | Second appeal under Section 19(3) filed before the Central Info
Why You Should Not Fear Personal-Information RTI Queries
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ant|RTI Assistant]]** — AI-driven drafting, First Appeal, Second Appeal in one place. </WRAP> {{ :social:auto:b... y; skipping it is procedural illegality. * //Kolkata Municipal Corporation v. WBIC// (Calcutta HC, 2016) — §11 is n... ed time and legal training. **Help the PIO give a correct, reasoned, appeal-proof order.** Supply: * The case-law citation... to the PIO within 48 hours, usually results in a correct disclosure order that the applicant cannot easily overturn on appeal. ==== Step 4. If the PIO proposes to disclose —
10 Most Unique RTI Applications in India That Will Change How You
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ant|RTI Assistant]]** — AI-driven drafting, First Appeal, Second Appeal in one place. </WRAP> {{ :social:auto:u... nion. - **The applicant is persistent** — First Appeal, Second Appeal, and sometimes the High Court. - **The finding is surprising or consequent... sulted in criminal proceedings against former Telecom Minister A. Raja, DMK MP Kanimozhi, and corporate executives. The Supreme Cou... tical and legal fallout that saw Games Organising Committee chairman Suresh Kalmadi investigated and charged. **What this revea
Right to Information at twenty
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ant|RTI Assistant]]** — AI-driven drafting, First Appeal, Second Appeal in one place. </WRAP> {{ :social:auto:b... sions ===== On 30 June 2025, the total number of appeals and complaints pending before twenty-nine Information Commissions stood at more than four lakh cases. The... e listed in the table below. ^ State Information Commission ^ Appeals and complaints pending on 30 June 2025 ^ | Mahar... lable includes: - the date of filing of each second appeal and complaint; - the stage of each case; - th
The Current State of Right to Information in India
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ant|RTI Assistant]]** — AI-driven drafting, First Appeal, Second Appeal in one place. </WRAP> {{ :social:auto:b... utiny under Section 8 of the RTI Act1. Justice CV Karthikeyan specifically observed that service registers containing details of assets and liabilities of publ... tounding 4.2 crore RTI applications and 26 lakh second appeals remain pending across the country, with applican... ength of eleven, resulting in over 23,000 pending appeals as of January 202511. This severe understaffing has prompted the Supreme Court to express its concerns in January 2025 over t
10 Supreme Court rulings every PIO and FAA must know (2026 edition)
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ant|RTI Assistant]]** — AI-driven drafting, First Appeal, Second Appeal in one place. </WRAP> **Ten Supreme Cou... emory drafts a reasoned order that survives First Appeal and the Commission. Each ruling below carries its citation, ... ssion vacancies timely. * **//Chief Information Commissioner v. Manipur//** (SC 2011) — the §18 complaint vs §19 appeal jurisdictional divide. * **//SP Gupta v. UoI// ... uling-plus-facts formula will survive First and Second Appeal in the overwhelming majority of service-record RT
RTI by State — what each state actually asks (data analysis, 2026)
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(f) × 4. ==== Karnataka (18 curated cases) ==== Karnataka splits across the high court (only 2 KAR cases) and a long tail of **DBT sc... luster in metro/urban states (Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, UP, MP) where Regional Passport Offices are based. They are conspicuously absent from rural-state corpuses (Biha... Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, UP, West Bengal, Karnataka:** your state's case law corpus is large enough to find a relevant precedent ... rch|case-law search]] filtered by your state's HC code. - **If you live in a small-corpus state (Guj
Digital vs Physical RTI — How Channel Choice Decides Your Outcome
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metatag-description=(Hard data on how online RTIs compare to postal RTIs — reply rates, response time, cost, deemed refusal, appeal outcomes.) metatag-title=(Digital vs Physical RTI... ellate Authority is marginally more responsive to appeals that cite a digital audit trail (application ARN, online reply PDF, SMS confirmations). Post-first-appeal escalation to CIC is **lower for online (14% vs 22% for walk-in)** — anoth... the portal; they must submit a physical BPL card copy — nullifying the online channel's privacy + tim
State Information Commissions — the silent vacancies crisis of 2026
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; commission paralysed since November 2025. * **Karnataka** — 4 of 11 filled; backlog 22,000 second appeals. * **Maharashtra** — 7 of 11 filled; backlog 2... ssions 2025. //Last reviewed: 25 April 2026.// {{tag>blog state-information-commission vacancies second-appeal backlog rti-crisis}}
RTI relating to Pension to be disclosed within 48 hours
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urs.(({{ :blog:cic_decision_dated_30.03.2017_on_second_appeal_filed_by_amrika_bai_v._pio_epfo_raipur.pdf |CIC/BS/A/2016/001238
Police departments are the largest RTI rejecters in 2025
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illing into the data, the patterns, and applicant counter-strategies.)}} ====== Police departments ar... png?direct&1200 }} The CIC Annual Report 2024-25 confirms what activists have long suspected: **polic... he single largest invokers of §8 exemptions** — accounting for ~22% of all rejections. ===== The brea... ice** — ~3,800. * **UP Police** — ~3,200. * **Karnataka Police** — relatively low rejecter. =====
Online RTI portals — a 2026 state-by-state comparison
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Deadline-tracking not auto-escalating. - CIC second-appeal flow not integrated. ===== What to do ===== - ... nt fails, keep the **gateway error screenshot**; UCO Bank or SBI e-payment typically. ===== Sources =
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